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Submission + - SPAM: Vonage gets shot down in retrial bid

Submitted by alphadogg on Thursday May 03, 2007 @04:29PM

alphadogg writes: A U.S. federal appeals court has rejected Vonage's request that it order a lower court to retry a patent-infringement case against the company, Vonage confirmed Thursday. The VOIP service provider, embroiled in a dispute with Verizon, had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to vacate an earlier jury verdict after a Supreme Court decision this week that is expected to change the way courts look at patent cases. Vonage was already appealing the verdict. [spam URL stripped]t -rejects-vonage-request-for.html

Submission + - Myspace goes homophobic

Submitted by Seto89 on Thursday May 03, 2007 @04:12PM

Seto89 writes: Since the beginning of the week Rupert Murdoch-owned MySpace has omitted the "Gay" option in the profile sex preference settings. More details in the AC article.
Also it is now impossible to post a bulletin with a content similar to the one posted in protest (can be found here) — the bulletins just don't appear (though bulletins with other content work fine).
Is Rupert Murdoch going into unstoppable censorship spree? Or does he only assume that all gays will hide from him in a closet?

Submission + - Advanced Emacs text operations

Submitted by

BlueVoodoo

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @04:10PM

BlueVoodoo writes: "You get a hands-on demonstration of advanced editing techniques, including how to perform a recursive edit, mark and use rectangles of text, and handle complex selection techniques using the kill ring and the secondary selection."

Submission + - Sun has joined the OpenOffice Mac Porting Project

Submitted by jakethedog on Thursday May 03, 2007 @03:05PM

jakethedog writes: Sun has joined the OpenOffice Mac Porting Project! http://blogs.sun.com/jpblog/entry/open_office_port ing_to_mac

Submission + - Fedora Core and Extras merge complete

Submitted by

lisah

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @01:26PM

lisah writes: "As of noon ET today, the merge of the Fedora Core and Extras repositories was underway in anticipation of the upcoming Fedora 7 release. The merge will combine about 8,000 packages and make it possible for people to spin their own custom spins of Fedora with exactly the packages they prefer. The move also marks the first time a major distribution allows community members the ability to modify packages directly inside a distribution."

Submission + - American Idol thrill dampened by computer glitches

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @12:28PM

coondoggie writes: "A computer glitch resulted in multiple charges for about 6,000 people looking to donate to TV show American Idol's request for donors last week. The TV show's "Idol Gives Back" is by any measure a success — it has raised almost $70 million to provide for children who live in poverty — but that success has apparently overwhelmed the system designed to handle the donations, charging some charity-givers two or three times. But computer system malfunctions have been at the heart of many American Idol controversies. Recently the show has faced vote counting problems laid at the doorstep of the computer/telephony system that counts the all-important votes. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1482 4"

Feed Picture perfect emoticons (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 09, 2007 @07:32PM

Blog: A former University of Pittsburgh doctoral student and professor have devised a way to turn photos of people's faces into emoticons...

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